PDF vs Printers

[Phil Bieber]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Tooker <Jeffreytooker at msn.com> wrote:

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>  > If you do not have foomatic installed; from a terminal:
>  >
>  > sudo apt-get intall foomatic*
>  >
>  > should do the trick.
>  >
>
>
>  NoOP:
>
>  Thank you for the info.  It should fix mt problem.  I take it by your post
>  that Foomatic package of drivers is onboard when 7.10 (fully updated) is
>  installed and that the command line entry then loads them into the system.
>  The reason for this question is that I will probably take my Lexmark (old
>  Printer) out to my offline machine.  And get an HP all in one for my online
>  machine.
>
>  Jeffrey Tooker
>  Paynes Creek Ca.

Hi!
Actually, the command posted will install every package starting with
foomatic. apt-get is the command line version of synaptic.
To answer your other question, foomatic is partially installed by
default. There are some filters missing, but those are installed when
you do the "apt-get install foomatic*".
If you want to install those packages on your second, internet-less
mashine, you can download the *.deb files from packages.ubuntu.com and
install the. But beware, there might be other packages that are needed
before you can install foomatic. You can check, if foomatic is on the
installation cd and use that as a repository.

Have a good day & cheers

Phil Biebe
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